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...convicted liar. Lemon took the Yankees to the World Series championship that year but in one of the game's strangest turnarounds, was himself ousted in June of 1979-in favor of Martin. Martin lasted until the end of the season before departing for Oakland, then Dick Howser moved onto the hot seat. A year later, after winning the most regular-season games in baseball (103, vs. 59 losses), Howser was replaced by Michael...
Remember when the Yankees replaced combative manager Billy Martin with easygoing Dick Howser? Well, the Father's Six bar is undergoing a similar facelift this fall, as its management hopes to parlay its new name--The Bow and Arrow Pub--and different decor into larger, more peaceful crowds for the establishment...
Presiding over this surprisingly cheerful army is the always boring Dick Howser, who recognized only last week he had been promoted from third base coach to manager. Dick may leave his pitchers in a bit too long and free ze up with a microphone in his face, but he has established a serenity which lets Reggie & Co. concentrate on baseball instead of squabbling. Pleased with Howser's "I'll shut up if you will" approach, Jackson has been blessing bleacher fans all year with a steady stream of tape measure rockets...
...Yankees acquired a right-handed power hitter in Bob Watson, a new catcher in Rick Cerone and a new centerfielder in Ruppert Jones, but this team is getting old. And the pitching staff may be in trouble if Ed Figueroa or Luis Tiant don't give manager Dick Howser right handed help...
...scoured farm clubs and campuses, paid an estimated $10 million in bonuses to promising youngsters. For a change, the best newcomers played for the teams that needed them most. Lee Thomas batted .285 and drove in 70 runs for the lowly Los Angeles Angels; Kansas City's Dick Howser hit .280 and stole 37 bases. Both were only also-rans for Rookie-of-the-Year honors, won by power-hitting Cubs Outfielder Billy Williams, 23 (25 homers, 86 R.B.I.s), and fastballing Red Sox Pitcher Don Schwall, 22, who won 15 games, lost only seven...